Best Practices and Methodologies for IT Project Portfolio Management

IT Project Management: Infamous Failures, Classic Mistakes, and Best Practices

In recent years, IT project failures have received a great deal of attention in the press as well as the boardroom. In an attempt to avoid disasters going forward, many organizations are now learning from the past by conducting retrospectives—that is, project postmortems or post-implementation reviews. While each individual retrospective tells a unique story and contributes to organizational le...

Strategic Alignment and IT Project Portfolio Management

If structured around an appropriate combination of business processes, knowledge and technology, Information Systems can become a very powerful business strategic lever. With this holistic perspective in mind, we redesigned the dysfunctioning IT project portfolio management process of one of the FTSE 100 global companies. The new process aims at better identifying, evaluating and balancing proj...

Asymmetric Correlation in IT Project Portfolio Management

Value-Oriented IT Project Portfolio Management

In the present enterprise computing environment, it becomes more and more important to be able to demonstrate financial gains of IT (Information Technology) initiatives compared to their cost. A valuation methodology is a logical, repeatable fi-amework for making IT investment decisions and monitoring projects to ensure that they ultimately contribute to the financial health and growth of the e...

Project Interactions in value based IT Project Portfolio Management

Adequately considering interactions among IT projects in the process of constructing an IT project portfolio is a necessary condition in value-based IT project portfolio management (PPM). A lot of articles already deal with such interactions, but the literature lacks a common terminology and a structured perspective on the manifold types of interactions and their effects. In this article we pre...